Thank you, Madam Chair.
First of all, I want to say that I like the bill. From your presentation, it has been very clear that the people who are on strike and then subsequently return to work and are fired or let go or the company shuts down, or what have you, shouldn't be penalized for the time that they were either locked out or on strike. They're actually not unemployed. They're not off the payroll. They're actually still employees of that company; they're just not being paid for that period. There's the penalty. So I understand, and I don't have great problems with the bill as such, I must say.
I asked some questions earlier of our colleague who has put the bill forward. One of the questions that is being asked and has come up with us is will this--and as you are with labour, I think it's important to ask you--cause an undue advantage for labour? In other words, if the employees know that they are not going to lose out on the amount of time that they're on strike, would that in any way make it more difficult for negotiations, that labour gets an advantage in that way?
This is something that has been raised, and I don't buy it, but I really want to hear from you as labour representatives about what you think, having been in situations like that and obviously having negotiated walkouts or labour disputes before. How would this play into that?